Welding and Parkinson disease: Is there a bond?

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2001-2003

  Kieburtz, Karl ^a,b   Kurlan, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CHROMIUM; CIGARETTE SMOKE; IRON; MANGANESE; NEUROTOXIN; NICKEL; OZONE;

BRADYKINESIA; EDITORIAL; FUME; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR; UNITED STATES; WELDING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 21144457732     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.64.12.2001     Document Type: Editorial

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